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    Florida's orange growers have recently dealt with a double whammy with a hurricane and disease, but growers are optimistic that the future will be bright for the industry.

      Russia’s security service has arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges. It's the first time a U.S. correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations and demanded his release. Thirty-one-year-old Evan Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, about 1,670 kilometers (1,035 miles) east of Moscow. Russia’s Federal Security Service accused him of trying to obtain classified information. Known by the acronym FSB, the service is the top domestic security agency and main successor to the Soviet-era KGB.

        A Mexican court has issued arrest orders for six people in relation to the fire that killed 39 migrants at a detention facility earlier this week in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. The federal prosecutor leading the investigation, Sara Irene Herrerías, said Thursday that the six include three officials from the National Immigration Institute, two private security guards contracted by the agency and the person who allegedly started the fire. She said they would face charges of homicide and causing injuries. At least 39 migrants died after apparently starting a fire inside a holding cell at the facility Monday night. More than two dozen other migrants were injured.

          Former President Donald Trump was indicted today by a grand jury in the state of New York for his alleged part in hush money payments made to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. In the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, tried to buy the sile…

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